PITTSFIELD -- Cape Breton native Natalie MacMaster can dive into a reel and sweep her listeners along with her. "[The fiddle] came easily to me, and I enjoyed the fact that I could play it," said ...

A common dynamic binds Cajun fiddle playing and the melodic rhythms of Cape Breton sound. Neither is highly structured or technically intricate in its expressions, but both sure make you feel good ...

The virtuoso Canadian fiddler sits down with Q’s Tom Power to discuss her new memoir, I Have a Love Story, which is an ode to ...

Cape Breton, to many around the globe, seems to be a tucked-away, mystical sort of place, an island that’s visited only as an afterthought by wealthy families shopping in Halifax, Nova Scotia’s ...

Jerry Holland, from Cape Breton, and Tommy Peoples, from Ireland, are masters of their respective styles of fiddling. Together in concert they will display similarities as well as the differences of ...

Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy are known as Canada’s reigning stars of Celtic music. Some people go even further with the praise, geographically speaking. They are "two of the planet’s very best ...

The Hanneke Cassel Band features Tristan Clarridge on cello/vocals and Keith Murphy on guitar/vocals. Multi-instrumentalist, ...

The Hanneke Cassel Band will perform at the Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St., Arcata, Sunday at 7 p.m. Boston-based fiddler Hanneke Cassel’s fiddle music fuses influences from the Isle of Skye and ...

Only a handful of Cape Breton fiddle musicians have achieved fame beyond the island s shores. One of them is Natalie MacMaster, who literally wears her culture on her sleeve, performing jigs, reels, ...

“You get every little thing!” exclaimed Natalie MacMaster as she and her husband and musical partner, Donnell Leahy, closed out a rousing evening of traditional Cape Breton fiddling and clogging. Over ...

BRATTLEBORO -- The Acoustic Music Series at Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery continues with a fiddle twin bill featuring legendary Cape Breton fiddler Jerry Holland and Ed Pearlman, Scottish fiddle, ...